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Preparing for 8 Billion People

20 October 2022

Overview

Join UN DESA and experts for a discussion of the opportunities and challenges of living on a planet with 8 billion people. Members of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, UN staff, leaders representing older persons and young people will consider ways to best accommodate this growth. The time is now to use this data to enhance preparedness measures and ensure sustainable development.

Organization of work

Thursday, 20 October 2022

8:30-10 a.m. EDT

 Introduction (5 minutes)

  • Samme Allen, Moderator

 
Video (5 minutes)

  • “World of 8 Billion People”
Panel 1: Fertility, reproductive health and the SDGs (25 minutes)

  • Anastasia Gage, Professor at the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, and member of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs
  • Michael Herrmann, Senior Adviser, Economics and Demography, UNFPA
Panel 2: Maximizing the demographic dividend to support economic growth in the Global South  (28 minutes)

  • Alex Ezeh, Professor of Global Health in the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, and member of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs
  • Kawita Niwatananun, National Project Coordinator, ILO Youth Project
  • Joshua Alade, Executive Director, Nigeria Youth SDGs Network

 
Panel 3: Increased life expectancy and preparing to support an older population (25 minutes)

  • Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics, London Business School, and co- founder of The Longevity Forum
  • Karoline Schmid, Chief, Fertility and Population Ageing Section, Population Division, UN DESA

 
Wrap-up (2 minutes)

  • Moderator